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The basic thesis of the manifesto is as follows: The American aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity that is based largely on false assumptions and bad information. As the nation's acute energy predicament intensifies, the most simple and elegant remedy available is the one that almost never gets mentioned. The avoidance of the bicycle in recent public discourse has been conspicuous, ridiculous, and downright strange. While bicycling, for a variety of reasons, will not be the best choice for everybody, it is realistic to think that we in the US could grow the mode share of the bicycle to around 5%. (This would represent a huge increase in the number of cyclists currently on the road, but would still be far below levels currently seen in many European countries.) Boosting the mode share of bicycling to this seemingly modest level would produce rather intense, far-reaching positive effects (and a few negative ones), at an extremely low cost. The latter half of the manifesto will be devoted to painting the undeniably tantalizing picture of just what those effects might be -- for instance, the health care savings would be astronomical -- and the different ways that individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over their energy destiny. The author's recommendations are surprising. It'll be easier than we think. It will even be fun. The roads are already bikeable, and there's an old bike waiting in the garage behind the wetvac.… (plus d'informations)
I wouldn't have called this a manifesto - I think of a manifesto as a document focussed on some proposal. This book is a lot of fun but it is more of a ramble with lots of opinions mixed in along the way, but nothing like a grand vision.
A major chapter of the book is a review of the American addiction to petroleum and its immanent demise. The author does a good job of reviewing the facts.
Another main chapter is on bicyclists and traffic. Hurst isn't a fan of bike lanes, nor does he like the approach of Forester, where bikes should be regulated just like cars. Bikes aren't just like cars! So Hurst is proposing a moderate approach, with some flexibility for the unique attributes of bikes.
The book starts out with a nice history of how early automobile history is tied in with bicycles - early automobile racers started as bike racers, etc.
Hurst tells us he's realistic in not expecting a very large fraction of the American population to take to biking to work. He is also not a big fan of group rides. For him, part of the fun of bicycling is being a bit of a maverick, an outsider.
So this is a bit of an idiosyncratic perspective on biking. It also seems more directed to urban than rural cycling. Most folks live in cities, anyway! His ideas are all well motivated and come out of lots of experience. It's a good book and sure to invigorate anyone's thinking. ( )
Entertaining and unusual book. Opens with a brief history of cycling starting back in the 1890s, touching on the politics, women's suffrage, racism in bike racing, and the invention of the automobile. Who knew the bicycle was critical to the assault on Singapore in WWII? Touches on the oil supply, politics of energy, bike safety, bike lanes, and even a brief comment on Critical Mass. All this in less that 200 pages, in a very fresh voice. ( )
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To Christie, with whom I am always trying to keep up
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A dull roar, among other things, wafts through the open window here, 24-7. The freeway is about a half mile away, alternately hissing, whispering, and humming with the sound of tires on pavement. Traffic streams along I-25 day and night, and from here it actually sounds a bit like a mountain river, fourteen lanes wide.
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The basic thesis of the manifesto is as follows: The American aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity that is based largely on false assumptions and bad information. As the nation's acute energy predicament intensifies, the most simple and elegant remedy available is the one that almost never gets mentioned. The avoidance of the bicycle in recent public discourse has been conspicuous, ridiculous, and downright strange. While bicycling, for a variety of reasons, will not be the best choice for everybody, it is realistic to think that we in the US could grow the mode share of the bicycle to around 5%. (This would represent a huge increase in the number of cyclists currently on the road, but would still be far below levels currently seen in many European countries.) Boosting the mode share of bicycling to this seemingly modest level would produce rather intense, far-reaching positive effects (and a few negative ones), at an extremely low cost. The latter half of the manifesto will be devoted to painting the undeniably tantalizing picture of just what those effects might be -- for instance, the health care savings would be astronomical -- and the different ways that individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over their energy destiny. The author's recommendations are surprising. It'll be easier than we think. It will even be fun. The roads are already bikeable, and there's an old bike waiting in the garage behind the wetvac.
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A major chapter of the book is a review of the American addiction to petroleum and its immanent demise. The author does a good job of reviewing the facts.
Another main chapter is on bicyclists and traffic. Hurst isn't a fan of bike lanes, nor does he like the approach of Forester, where bikes should be regulated just like cars. Bikes aren't just like cars! So Hurst is proposing a moderate approach, with some flexibility for the unique attributes of bikes.
The book starts out with a nice history of how early automobile history is tied in with bicycles - early automobile racers started as bike racers, etc.
Hurst tells us he's realistic in not expecting a very large fraction of the American population to take to biking to work. He is also not a big fan of group rides. For him, part of the fun of bicycling is being a bit of a maverick, an outsider.
So this is a bit of an idiosyncratic perspective on biking. It also seems more directed to urban than rural cycling. Most folks live in cities, anyway! His ideas are all well motivated and come out of lots of experience. It's a good book and sure to invigorate anyone's thinking. (